What are you waiting on to arrive...?

I am waiting for quite a lot now. Most excited about a tub of Bufflehead soap, which is made with DUCK FAT(!). Really curious to try it. Also, from Maggards, I'm waiting for a full tub of LASSC Bespoke, a Mickey Lee Unforgiven, and one of their fat handles, the MR8. Finally, from Connaughts, there is an R41 replacement head on its way. Man, my *ADs are on the loose!

 

Still waiting on my Gillette Aristocrat Junior... Seems to be in USPS black hole of death. ChicagoMetroHub. Sounds like a swell place.

 

This is becoming more of an issue. It drives me insane when shipping gets held up for no reason.

 

Great razor - my favorite of the vintages so far

 

In transit via the USPS…

Tony Miller Artisan Old No. 2™ Specially Finished Premium Fast Bridle Leather with matching Fast Bridle leather trim and Handles.

• Front component: medium/heavy 8 to 9 oz. premium bridle-type leather that has been specially finished to provide a fast, light draw. Buttery smooth with a velvet-like draw and needs no breaking in. Hand-worked to give just the right suppleness and to help it resist cupping.
• Joined at the top to a second component of heavy-weight, medium-weave cotton. This standard heavy weight cotton second component works well alone or could be pasted with diamond spray or chromium oxide.
• Original design heavy 3-ply leather handles with an 3" wide x 17" long stropping surface. All strop edges are back beveled, rounded, and beaded. The heavy 3-ply handles and trim pieces are also rounded, back beveled and burnished for a more uniform appearance. 'Chicago Screw' construction making them modular for easy component replacement should it be needed. 29" overall.

 

I am waiting on two silvertip badger knots from Virginia Sheng and three pure badger knots from ganvillage_green in China.

 

Yes

 

Prices go up. Service gets worse. Great business model.

 

Actually I use a sock similar to that at bedtime to help with a nerve issue that has made my right foot cold for a year or so.

 

The latest USPS Budget cuts have caused a number of "Black Holes". In some places, Priority Mail day delivery is 3 days. First Class mail seems to be the most affected, lots of Black Holes; 4 days from Sugarland to Amarillo, Texas only 38 miles apart. The new reality!

 

Have you tried their Strong N Scottish? It both intrigues and scares me.

 

It will all work itself out once Amazon buys the USPS...

 

Yes, that was one of them. Had to try it, didn't I?! There are quite a few soaps that are described as smokey. One realizes that none of the others really are after trying MT Strong'n'Scottish. (Or the others only bring associations of smoke.) If you have ever had a sip (or whiff) of Ardbeg or Laphroaig or the like, you'll know what this soap smells like. The wool fat in there didn't really catch on either. In short: I'd split the two, keeping the whisky in a glass and a cleaner, less intense lanolin soap in my den. [Hmm, that is indeed the reality: Laphroaig Quarter Cask plus MWF ]

The others I tried were Moroccan Rhassoul, Pots of Milk, Himalayan Heights and Indian Flavour. I liked Scottish and Himalayan the least; Pots of Milk the most, followed closely by Moroccan and then Indian.

Also good, the samples come grated rather than in small tubs, which I find a lot easier to handle.

 

Thanks for the info.

Been wanting to try them as they seem to have different recipes for their soaps which to me is unique. Haven't heard of the Black Beer going to have to check that one out.

 

Waiting on a boxed Kent T12 brush for about $40.
I think it's a super badger knot and a larger one at that.
This is the later version of the T12 which, supposedly, addressed the shedding issue the earlier version had. We shall see
Sounded like a fair deal though.

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Sigh...and I still want to try it

 

Nice looking brush. First time I've seen the tortoise handle in these.

 

Yeah, I'll be honest the look of the handle was a big part for getting it... That and I think this is a really big knot but will see when it arrives...

 

Jerry Seinfeld says the new USPS model should be, let UPS handle the packages and the Post Office should open and read my mail and tell me what it says by email.

 

If it is like the other 12 series it is something like a 30/31mm knot. Huge. I had the 8 series and that was a big knot at 26mm but for me too floppy. Don't know what the T12 will be like but the 26mm with high loft was more like my 30mm knots.